Where to Buy Beef Near Banner Elk, NC

Banner Elk is about half an hour from Vilas, over the kind of roads that make half an hour mean something in January. Close enough that collecting is almost always simpler than shipping.

Three ways

1. A collection point. We run pick-up points around Boone and Blowing Rock, both of which are an easier run than coming to the farm. The current list is on the pick-up locations page.
2. The farm. Vilas. Required for a half share, which is too much beef for a car park handover.
3. Shipped frozen. It works, and at this distance it is mostly a convenience rather than a necessity.

“You know, the farms that we have access to are just little plot. It's tucked in amongst the hills, you know, and you don't have big large expanses, that you can manage consistently and it's more spread out and it's more disparate. That's what's unique about the farming plus we're in a couple hours off the interstate and kind of tucked up here away from some of the labor pool and some of the resources and some of the transportation that makes it easier to get out and reach customers that are a little further away.”

Gray Shipley

That is the honest description of where we are. It is also why we go to collection points rather than expecting everyone to find us.

Which size to buy

If you are up here year-round, a share is the better economics, provided you have measured the freezer. If you are up for the season, a box makes more sense. We work through the sizes in which share is right for you.

“Everybody thinks it's the weather. So it's not the weather. That's what everybody thinks it is.”

Gray Shipley

“Support, they need the community around them to be invested in helping that farm survive and thrive.”

Gray Shipley

Boone and Blowing Rock have their own pages: Boone and Blowing Rock.